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    How does Barbie fit in Day of the Dead celebrations?

    Oct 30, 2019 3 minutes
    Artisan guitar maker Arturo Hernandez Jimenez works in his workshop in the Ciudadela craft market on September 19, 2019 in Mexico City. He says American corporate interest in Día de Muertos doesn’t bother him. “We all learn culture from each other.”

    Luis Manuel Piña has been stamping, punching, and pounding sheets of tin into decorative art, a craft called hojalata, for 40 years, since he was 6.

    Among his bestsellers this time of year are the catrinas, or female skeleton figurines that symbolize Mexico’s Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead). He creates them in metal or sells them in wood, dressed in bright, elegant gowns and equally bright hats.

    So if anyone should have an opinion on American toy company Mattel’s Dia De Muertos

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